14 NOVEMBER 1891, Page 2

The oratory after the election was very violent, especially on

the Parnellite side. Mr. Pierce Mahoney prophesied that the result of the defeat would be, that Mr. Gladstone's next Home-rule Bill would either be an insult to Ireland which Ireland would reject, or else Home-rule for only three-fourths of Ireland, Ulster being excluded from it. He also said that the election was a disgrace that Ireland could never wipe away, and that there were ten thousand men in the City of Cork, and throughout the length and breadth of Ireland, " who would never follow that contemptible crew or their horsewhipped leader." But if Mr. Parnell's party has dwindled down to ten thousand " throughout the length and breadth of Ireland," it is indeed a nullity.